I’m probably showing my age when I say that ‘The Love Boat’ was practically ubiquitous when I was a kid. Even if you didn’t make an effort to watch it, it seemed to run in some sort of bizarre, perpetual loop that meant you always wound up catching at least a half an episode here […]

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Originally, I was planning to talk about Groo the Wanderer and how awesome he is, but that requires some screenshots to display Sergio Aragonés’ amazing artwork and WordPress doesn’t seem to want to let me add pictures. I was then thinking about summarizing the whole Hugo debacle, but frankly it’s just not worth it. So […]

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DATELINE, HOLLYWOOD, CA: The entertainment industry was hit with devastating news today, as the Writers Guild of America, West (the premier screenwriters’ union in Hollywood) announced that virtually everything that could be weaponized by fictional terrorists, madmen, and power-mad dictators had, in fact, already been weaponized. The remaining list of things known to have not […]

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As I’m sure you’re at least dimly aware if you read this blog, Marvel is…decidedly NOT rebooting the Marvel Universe! Because Marvel never does that! That’s the sort of thing DC does, heh heh heh. We’d never ever do a ‘Crisis’ style reboot, not when we can just mush all of the parallel universes together […]

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Sorry about the delay in this week’s posting, but I spent the weekend at CONsole Room, a Twin Cities volunteer-run convention in its second year. I will freely admit, this is one of the places where my civic geek pride shows; Minneapolis/Saint Paul has a long, proud tradition of volunteer-run cons, including the largest in […]

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